Report

UNEP Environmental and Social Sustainability Framework: Stakeholder Response Mechanism

23 February 2020
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The stakeholder response mechanism aims for the UN Environment to respond to the stakeholders who are negatively affected by the projects UNEP proposes to carry out or currently implements. 

It states the process and guidelines for the operation of the UNEP’s stakeholder response mechanism through the project-specific grievance mechanism and Independent Office for Stakeholder Safeguard-related Response (the IOSSR).

It informs and guides staff, implementing and executing partners and people affected by UNEP projects in bringing and responding safeguard-related stakeholder responses concerning compliance review and dispute resolution in the context of the UNEP’s Environmental and Social Sustainability (ESS) Framework. 

Primary functions of the Independent Office for Stakeholder Safeguard-related Response (IOSSR) are:

Compliance review: process to respond to claims by stakeholders alleging that UN Environment activities implemented or executed as part of its projects are not in compliance with UN Environment’s own safeguard Framework; and

Grievance redress: process that provides people allegedly affected by UN Environment activities implemented or executed as part of its projects access to appropriate dispute resolution mechanisms for hearing and addressing project-related disputes.

Please refer to the Operational details on the Stakeholder Response Mechanism.

 

Stakeholder Response Mechanism Case Registry

UNEP is committed to accountability and transparency and recognizes the importance of safeguard information disclosure to the public. Below is a updated list of the complaint cases that UNEP has received.

Case No. Project Title Country Project ID Date Registered Status
SRM 2023/01 Supporting the Implementation of Integrated Ecosystem Management Approach for Landscape Restoration and Biodiversity Conservation in Tanzania United Republic of Tanzania GEF ID: 9524 12 May 2023
SRM 2022/01 REDD+ Results-based payments in Paraguay for the period 2015-2017 Paraguay GCF-FP121 14 July 2022